Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest Once framed

Once framed

English Books with Coloured Plates

hundreds of small individual buildings

map will look nice once displayed

Engraved by John Dower

Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest Once framedPurpura in Phoenicia colligitur Purpurarum genera (Cosmographia Universalis Seashell) Almost certainly one of the earliest available printed images of a seashell anyone could ever hope to acquire. It's difficult to image there are very many other earlier images of seashells which a collector might reasonably hope to encounter. In fact, we'd surmise that it could take quite some time and effort for a collector to find an older image of a seashell, not